Jeff Gordon Announces Alex Bowman's Status For Mexico City

"It happened so fast that I didn't even see them. I didn't know who hit me until I saw the video. It's always turbulent in the 300th. It's crazy back there. It gets wild and that is part of racing. It's wild all through the field," Bowman told the media after being treated.

"Unfortunately, the further back you get, the less downforce cars have, the dirtier the air, the situations you're in, and the worst everybody stuff drives. So stuff like this tends to happen."

There was no shortage of concern for Bowman when the wreck first happened. The red flag in the race was almost immediately thrown up.

In his podcast this week, Denny Hamlin said that he knew it must have been bad in that moment.

“I knew it had to be a big lick, because they wouldn’t even let us go through this crime scene,” Hamlin said on his Actions Detrimental podcast. “The caution came out for us, I think I was somewhere on the back stretch, and we were stopped right after the start-finish-line.

“So, at that point, when it goes red that quickly, I’m like, ‘Oh, must’ve had a big one.’ I point myself out to look at the screen to see the replay, and I was like, ‘Whoa, that was a big hit.’

“You certainly feel it more so the day after and the following days. Like, for instance, my wrist from Daytona — I think it’s still not right from where it was. Like, I’m so old now, it’s like, will it ever be right again? It just sucks to put any kind of pressure on it.

“It’s just — I think it’s different for everyone. People recover differently. But yeah, I mean, head-on impact like that — certainly when the Next Gen originally came out and it was solid as a rock, you know, before they started cutting up the roll cage and all kinds of stuff to get the impacts a little bit softer, you know, that could’ve been a way worse wreck than what it appears that it resulted in.”

Thankfully, it sounds like Bowman is going to okay in the short-term.